Most Of The Power Of Painting Comes

In The Place Where I Was A Child, There Were No Artists And There Was No Art, So I Really Didn't Know What That Meant. I Think I Thought It Meant That I Would Be In A Situation Different Than The One That I Was In.

As One Gets Older One Sees Many More Paths That Could Be Taken. Artists Sense Within Their Own Work That Kind Of Swelling Of Possibilities, Which May Seem A Freedom Or A Confusion.

Everybody Is Of Course Free To Interpret The Work In His Own Way. I Think Seeing A Picture Is One Thing And Interpreting It Is Another.

I Think That One Wants From A Painting A Sense Of Life. The Final Suggestion, The Final Statement, Has To Be Not A Deliberate Statement But A Helpless Statement. It Has To Be What You Can't Avoid Saying.

There Was Very Little Art In My Childhood.